the latest news of the week's top stories on the ark see the hunger strike in guantanamo bay passes the one hundred day mark but most inmates are still starving themselves with a definite detention without charge. the u.s. government seizes the phone records of over a hundred journalists from the associated press a spot the media outrage but the white house insists it was unaware of the probe. syrian government forces take the fight to the rebels in a key town near the lebanese border as an entry point for smuggled weapons and mercenaries. and more spies in disguise a russian security exposes a cia chief in moscow as it was intelligence is left red faced after getting called to trying to recruit a russian agent. ai

. you're watching r t live from moscow with me to say let's take a look at this week's the weekly more than one hundred days as since the mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay began there's still no sign that any of the protesters are willing to back down well overhaul fault the people detained there without charge protesting their indefinite applied with no hope of release some inmates the save is seeking freedom through death but the u.s. military force is force feeding them to make sure that that doesn't happen as granted she can reports. after years of inaction injustice and indifference and after more than three months of starvation one tunnel detainees have finally got the president's attention i'm going to go back at this they've heard these

words before president i will close guantanamo reject the military commissions act and if you go to the geneva conventions and now again it needs to be closed now congress and again as many times before the white house if it were sponsibility to congress there's much he can do administratively without congress without having legislative act even under current restrictions the administration has the power to use national security waivers to release many of these men which it hasn't used it's the charge that well the fear that if you release some of these prisoners that have been accused of being terrorist in the past and and they do something else or you find them going into terrorist organizations you pay a heavy political price for that so many of these men have fallen victim not just to their wrongful capture but also to u.s. politicians assumptions of what they may or may not do in the future but you can or

you can or will people want to maybe you know this is a we're not future police here so far the administration's only response to the crisis of going problem or has been to force feeding troops down detainees nostrils the fact of the matter is that when an individual makes a decision of sound mind makes a decision to refuse food as a political protest then as we said in a joint statement it is not open to the states in a circumstance to force them to do each. and the force feeding here involves the insertion of a tube of some significant dynamic diameter through the nasal passages and into the stomach in the most horrible circumstances the un special rapporteur on human rights also told me that he was encouraged to hear the president. once again express commitment to close the infamous prison president of united states has said kuantan was a problem and you're on the ground for some reason the camp ministration continues to treat these men and humanely and to deny them basic dignity for years the

administration is engaged in verbal and legal acrobatics to justify its inaction on guantanamo and still not clear how long before people there start dying but one thing is clear the elephant in the room just are too big to ignore in washington i'm going to shut down. the u.s. military recently requested tens of millions of dollars to renovate the prison saying congress has decided to keep it open indefinitely maintaining the notorious camps already costing america a considerable sum let's take a look at those numbers nine hundred thousand dollars that's the price of keeping just one detainee for a year and there's one hundred and sixty six detainees all inmates at guantanamo many of whom have been held without charge for more than a decade a cause much less some twenty five thousand. to house a convicted prisoner in the u.s.

are g.'s a bill daughter told to guantanamo spokesman navy captain robert duran tuesday night abuse at the facility. they get a what we call a full frisk which is a pat down search not unlike you'd experience going through airport security if you are selected for secondary screening in the united states it's quick it's the full clothing on hand and it's noninvasive it's not the detainees job to tell the truth the lawyers just repeat what the detainees say that all of those allegations are false and let me ask you about the allegations about the on the safe and inhumane force feeding all those prisoners who are on hunger strike do you deny that the policy of the united states and its director of life for lawful means we have currently thirty who are doing and carolyn said that's using a liquid nutrition supplement most of them when they're ordered to do that go compliantly and take it a percentage about a third need to be taken to their cheating it's

a procedure that's done in hospitals and nursing homes every day it's not done to harass them but it's done to to stay in life to sustain life while we've been hearing from the medical justice network who is saying that don't deserve accused of colluding in port said that at the camp and that's been agreed on by the world medical association and the u.n. the u.s. and we disagree with them it's a matter of national policies our courts of up held that. sustaining life you lawful means lawful we have a medical protocol where we evaluate detainees based on their weight loss and co-morbidity we allow them to hunger strikes that if they get below eighty five percent of body weight some damage could be down we will do the involuntary feeding all of those allegations are false they're not they're not being subject to extreme temperatures they're not being denied food and water the conditions are as good as they can possibly be they had satellite television and they had communal living

that all kinds of good things were transparent facility. an attorney for several of the guantanamo inmates a says of the camp's authorities are trying to crush the disease will starve themselves but actually giving them even more cause to protest i think what we're seeing is a deliberate tactic. to break the strike i think these these toxic tactics of solitary confinement whose body searches among other things have been used to pressure them and to break the strike i think champ administration's response since that in terms of conditions at the camps denying what's happening defending their actions entirely have actually just deep into the men's results to continue and one one point i want to correct as a factual matter is traditions at one time or right now are not decent they are not you have most of them and they are protesting for over three months in conditions of solitary confinement so there is not only

a problem of illegal detention without charge at guantanamo right now but a question of serious serious questions about the united states is compliance with the geneva conventions in terms of humane treatment of these men and they are in twenty two to twenty four hour solitary confinement right now. that's how things are right now over the guantanamo bay hunger strike to get yourself up to speed on the events of the possible one hundred days at our dog called their guilt line complete and comprehensive coverage with comments and analysis from the u.s. officials lawyers and even some former detainees it's all online for you think. the u.s. justice department got embroiled in another surveyed in scandal this week after it sees two months of phone records of editors and journalists from the countries the biggest news gathering service the associated press is wall has the details. it's being called an unprecedented government intrusion the justice department secretly

collected two months of telephone records from the associated press and its reporters. a.p. believes this story prompted the secret investigation the cia uncovered a plot to bomb a u.s. bound airliner a plot originated in yemen and was carried out by al qaeda they arabian peninsula by reporting this al qaeda was put on notice that the cia had an inside look at their activities be a piece as the justice department did not say why they needed the information but says among the nearly two dozen telephone records collected at least five of them were from reporters working on the story in question this was a very serious. a very serious leak and a very very serious leak. i've been a prosecutor since one thousand nine hundred six and i have to say that this is among if not the most serious it is within the top two or three most serious leaks

that never see it put the american people at risk and that is not hyperbole eric holder announced he was recusing himself from this a.p. investigation but prominent news agency condemned the government's actions in a letter to holder associated press c.e.o. gary pruitt says quote these records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the news gathering activities undertaken by the a.p. during a two month period provide a road map to news gathering operations and disclose information about a.p.'s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know now the a.p. is asking for an explanation as to why the government pulled reporters' phone records without notifying them the worries the effect the news will have on the media and its sources i think the effect on the media has already been felt i mean you have sources that are being shut down. doors just being shut in people's faces now that was probably the intention the intention was to scare. the turn

off the faucet in other words from leaks in the wake of the controversy white house press secretary jay carney reiterated the obama administration's dedication to transparency he believes strongly in the need for the press to be unfettered in its pursuit of investigative journalism he also believes strongly as a citizen and as president in the need to ensure that classified information is not leaked because it can endanger our national security interests there's a balance between transparency and national security has been a delicate one since nine eleven the obama administration has a history of aggressively going after whistleblowers prosecuting more people for leaking classified information than any other administration combined and washington was wall are. some countries also making sure other governments are in the loop when they need to snoop surveillance technology developed in the u.k.

was used to gave of activities not taking legal action she tells us her story here on r.g.p. in a couple of minutes. that america's promises to iraq of a new dawn a ring hollow while the country's corrupt oil sector flourishes citizens are left scavenging in the trash heaps all that and. they're ready to come here to work and not get paid for it. people from all over the world are eager to help so. what does it take to become a volunteer at russia's premium museum why did the son of louvers director come here. from one of the camps to. behind the scenes at the helm of.

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a kid a rebel stronghold with these fifty eight people said to have been killed in the ongoing battle. of okun say near the lebanese border is allegedly a vital hop for the smuggling of bombs into syria local journalists was amy has the latest. the rebels are on the north an area of the city that is a full control over the east in western. side of the city that was dated the center of center city is liberated and in a surprise the syrian army managed to make a full circle around the city fighting position a position fight is the main achievement is to stop that line of supply chain between lebanon and syria most of the fight is gathered from different areas and syria in order to gather in course said become the capital of pollution this operation move very slow but it's wise for these studies to additionally speaking

they managed to make first they started from the west from western side of the of the city in that order they control this this zone with some fighters from lebanon some extremist a group were preparing to go into syria to fight with that a bull's going to make they were going to make kind of a bigger front in order to fight and expand. the fighting line between government and opposition by this now we have limited the fighting into one city or one into one part of the city the international arena and international fear has started to change with russian american agreement. it's less acceptable. acceptable for countries to go against the american will by providing more weapons to that if aleutian. in syria by this it's a kind of a green line for the syrian government forces to go into the temple. which is of

course now by this no more smuggling will go on. weapons coming from cut off from other countries. twenty three years apart and finally reunited we've got an amazing story for you on our website it's now the only rule that held the medicaid his home and family two decades after being kidnapped was guess what google maps. also where the pentagon's pulled the plug on an ambitious space project just by blowing away with two hundred million dollars in it already we'll tell you why online. humiliated and expelled the cia spy ryan fogle has now left russia after being busted over a million dollars to a russian security agent in return for assistance this week saw red faces at the

american embassy in moscow as the identity was also revealed of the cia bureau chief working under the guise of a diplomat but in a caution about takes up the story ryan fogle was caught in the act trying to recruit a russian special services agent to work for the americans now russia's federal security service has released a photo of technical equipment and some other items that were found when he was detained including a compress a map of moscow a large amount of cash and even two weeks to allegedly use as disguises now this is suspected cia agent was offering one million dollars a year for passing on classified information and that was revealed to you know why a taped telephone conversation between four and the security agent he was trying to recruit made public by russia's federal security service. you're going up a storm subordinate to so many of us more to. talk of the war than you want to

store attack us because of the mortgages on the bottom of a million little old you want us it's all some new. ideas. full has been handed over to the american authorities and now faces deportation the f.s.b. told r.t. that that was not the first case and recent years since two thousand and eleven there have been in fact four other similar cases one case involved and other american embassy employee who was trying to recruit a russian employee of national anti terror committee the answer is b. says that there is a striking resemblance to the focal scase and that the cia has gone too far with us spying operations we were particularly outraged at the actions of the american spy dylan benjamin he tried to convince an employee of the russian national counter-terror committee to hand over classified documents of this department to the cia like mr fogle he was deported from russia we hope the cia would learn their

lesson and something like that would never happen again so we decided not to release the information about dylan to the public but apparently they didn't learn that lesson in fogel's case the cia crossed a red line so we have to react according to official instructions. and as average with a juicy spy story at hand the exposure of a cia spy in moscow got the media animated with a mixture off laughter and disbelief at their alleged spies quite clumsy recruiting to clean but that's quite a common reaction to the stories like this but still it doesn't make them a new last true less three member of the previous scandals for instance back in two thousand and six russian t.v. showed a documentary exposing several british and my six agents working in moscow and here is the high concept they used rocks at that time the media laughed at what was considered a conspiracy theory until

a high ranking adviser to the prime minister admitted it's true so rocks weeks compresses and maps jeems von doesn't exactly have much competition right now britons have been taken to task for failing to keep books close watch on how it's technology is used. to this repressive government use u.k. made equipment to keep tabs on her she's now taking the issue to london's high court the manufacturers insist the devices are designed for criminal investigations but privacy complaint is a see the system's abuse is why if this is what we know now the program is called fin spy and it can perform a wide range of surveillance operation it works by infecting your computer then recording conversations and social media activity it can also take screenshots without your knowledge and axes the information on your hard drive now i lost the

hobby who followed the court documents told r t that digital surveillance has been spreading in bahrain since former high ranking u.k. police officer john yates became security advice of a. the e-mails were disguised as if they were from journalists and were from other activists and then after we discovered after two months investigation of a technical analysis to try and. investigate what kind of information on what this software actually does we discovered there was a company called gamma international which sells this software to foreign governments so we assumed and we given the circumstances in which i received the e-mails and the nature of the e-mails this was a suspect this was sold to the bahraini government but we also know that the servers. received this information from the software is actually based in bahrain so the servers are currently in bahrain and they're being updated in

bahrain which means that this is further evidence over the past two years particularly british advisor john yates joined the bahrain security services we have noticed the increase in the use of surveillance in the use of c.c.t.v. and the use of digital surveillance and there are very targeted arrests and for infiltration amongst protest activists that are happening using the latest technology technologies and this is all happened since following on from the hiring of the recruitment of john yates and most of these companies that provide all of this technology are british now we know of at least thirty six so be maintained worldwide so now that this is a global operation gamma international has sold this software to at least twenty five governments and the us seems the use of the software seems to have no any type of restriction so this is turning into a global phenomenon and it's run by the private sector so well looking increasingly

at the commercialisation of digital surveillance which is even scarier because it's very difficult to regulate. iraq is now the eighth the murrays a corrupt country in the world to ten years after the invasion which was supposed to restore the country millions of dollars ahead of the fayed contracts while locals contend with poverty toxic water and davey paul blackouts reports. it is the land between twin rivers ancient day mesopotamia modern day iraq and in baghdad there's no shortage of ways in which water is used to wash cars to clean shop fronts to store freshly caught fish before their gutted for sale everything it seems except drinking it personally nobody drinks the city because we know it's not clean since my wife had to. lock what comes out of the tap askham terminated it makes us sick how can we drink can't. water is just one of the many services that

still lagging in post-war iraq despite years of promises and billions of dollars spent on reconstruction many neighborhoods lack sewage systems there's no trash collection in some settlements there are barely any streets iraq's central power is sometimes on for as little as two hours a day this mess of wires is a common scene all across iraq it connects homes to private generators people have to buy electricity to cope with the hours of daily blackouts ten years after the war it's a symbol for much of what's wrong with the wrong approaching infrastructure a libel services and a tangled web of a walker sea and corruption. the energy crisis has meant more work for album area and electrician who says he now earns about four times as much as he did before the war the grid is in shambles and breakdowns are frequent but he says the government is simply not serious about fixing it. it's the

citizens who suffer in the end not the government the services are so bad the power system has really deteriorated there were billions spent on fixing the grid but there's little to show for it. the government has promised improvements in public services but officials say it's a monumental task the infrastructure has been put to the neglected end of the previous regimes and the damage is enormous there is a need to rebuild everything that's requires tens of billions of dollars but the dollars are flowing along with and largely because of oil that's what accounts for most of the revenue in iraq's one hundred nineteen billion dollar budget here at the college were fine reproduction had more than doubled in the past here alone and that to grow even higher the world's oil industry has been touted as one of the few bright spots in a country that's been playing by a little while and the rampant corruption transparency international ranks iraq as the eighth most corrupt country in the world which in part helps to explain why

services are still lagging most of the reconstruction money was squandered through fraud and abuse just one example the government awarded one point seven billion dollars worth of fake electricity contracts it's a paradox that frustrates many iraqis theirs is one of the wealthiest pieces of land on earth but its people are some of the forest. nowhere is that contrast more stark then here the landfill on the edge of baghdad many of the families living here have been displaced by the war but now they're waging a daily battle just to survive services are simply nonexistent for the conditions a horrible there are no schools for the kids who have no electricity no real houses to get a drink of water we have to travel for columbus's it's very difficult to live here . for now they must remain among the refuse uncertain like the rest of iraq as to what will come on the winds of change lucy catherine of baghdad iraq. some

more international headlines in brief and now a young man has died in the capital police clash with supporters of a hardline islamist group which openly backs al-qaeda descended into tunis and another central city defying a government ban on the rally riot police were deployed and used tear gas to break up the protests the unsung saria movement is the most radical to immersion tunisia since the twenty eleven arab spring uprising and poses a test of the moderate islamist government. the leader of one of pakistan's main parties the cricket legend imran khan is blaming a key political rival for the writer of his party's vice president russia he was settled outside her home in karachi by a gunman on a motorcycle imran khan says or the head of the m.p. when which is karachi is the most popular political movement as previously openly threaten to his party's members in public. and

a couple of minutes meet the unseen team keeping one of russia's most exquisite museums in addition. although i was born after the vietnam era i remember t.v. discussions about the buddhist monk who burnt absolve to death as a form of protest the commentators on the news said that people there just have a different mindset that westerners could never understand you know which is probably true but they were implying that people in the west are just different and would never use the absolutely extreme form of protest which is also probably true until just recently with the cost of electricity exceeding the income of the average bulgarian and a new government coming to power that looks exactly like the old government that collapsed at least six paul geary and have used. self-immolation is

a very desperate and extreme form of protest but why kristen ghodsee a professor at bowdoin college who has extensively talked to bulgaria protesters claims that those who self-immolating are just incredibly desperate and cannot feed their own children and that people are actually becoming a stealth check for communism because at least that system at the people's basic needs the current democratic system from the populace perspective according to her just cycles through a few new crooks every few years although it does get media attention and you may be feeling desperate suicide is never an answer the more living bulgarians the better bulgaria's chances believe me but that's just my opinion.